Travolta's lawyer says trial in Bahamas

Tuesday, September 29, 10:02 PM NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - A paramedic who treated the sick child of John Travolta was preparing to deliver to the media private information unless you paid $ 25 million for a document he considered detrimental to the movie star, a lawyer said Tuesday. Allyson Maynard-Gibson, a lawyer for Travolta who is also leader of the opposition in the Senate of the Bahamas, said paramedic Tarin's lawyer told her Lightbourne days after the teenager's death in January that Lighbourne wanted to give the actor the "first option" to purchase the document. Maynard-Gibson told the jury that counsel, former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater _que also faces charges of extortion along with Lightbourne_ , told her during a meeting on 15 January that the paramedic had been talking to international media companies and that the document "could belong to Travolta or the world." Lightbourne "had been in contact with a lady of the U.S. press who told him that he would benefit if it could show that Travolta was negligent, "said Maynard-Gibson, without revealing the identity of the person concerned. The document, signed Travolta, would have rid the paramedic from liability if the family refused to send Jett Travolta, 16, to hospital. The actor said last week that he initially wanted his son to be flown to Florida for treatment by the attack that led to his death on January 2. But Jett was treated in the Bahamas, and it was unclear why the defendants Travolta would have thought I would pay to keep the document secret. Maynard-Gibson, who was justice minister in the Bahamas, said Bridgewater said she had warned Lightbourne that "what he was doing was wrong and would be detrimental to the country. "The trial began on 21 September and is expected to last several weeks. It is thought that Travolta declared later in the process. Average (Not Rated)